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Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles